Deli Gong is a co-founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building privacy-preserving, high-throughput blockchain infrastructure from Singapore. As Co-Founder of Automata Network he steers a middleware protocol that combines advanced cryptography and TEEs to enable use-cases like anonymous voting and MEV minimization across chains. Previously he led infrastructure and core development at Zilliqa, contributing to the world’s first sharded, high-throughput public blockchain and hands-on CI/CD and deadlock fixes in its codebase. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NUS and a BE from Zhejiang University, blending academic rigor with practical systems work. Colleagues would describe him as a founder-engineer who moves between low-level scripting and protocol design, prioritizing reliable, auditable systems at scale.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Zilliqa is the world's first high-throughput public blockchain platform - designed to scale to thousands of transactions per second.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 release, 453 commits, 149 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Deli's contributions primarily focused on the Zilliqa blockchain platform's infrastructure and scripting. They added shebangs to various shell scripts used for testing and building the platform. The user also worked on merging branches, indicating involvement in code integration and possibly CI/CD tasks. Further changes include fixing potential deadlocks and the macro definition.
Contributions:43 reviews, 140 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year 11 months
privacyblockchaindistributed-systemsautomata
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